The Chikungunya virus decreased its circulation in the country for the last three years. According to statistics from the Ministry of Health, in the last five years, the total number of cases was 4 thousand. In 2019 the figure...
The Costa Rican company Speratum is developing a potential molecular therapy against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This was pointed out by the molecular biologist Christian Marín.
Since 2014, Speratum has been working with a technology called RNA interference...
A document with bioethical guidelines was prepared by the Center for Strategic Development and Information on Health and Social Security (Cendeisss), in which a series of recommendations addressed to the authorities and their officials were incorporated, in order to...
There are many questions we ask ourselves with regard to this COVID-19 Pandemic that has been attacking humanity since the end of the last year 2019. Among some of these questions is the doubt about contamination by COVID-19 that...
The College of Informatics and Computing Professionals (CPIC) is aware of the importance of digital transformation, and highlights that it is one of the main issues to strengthen, as has been seen in Costa Rica during the Pandemic.
This has...
The Costa Rican Ministry of Health hopes to acquire the first vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 and start with the vaccination campaigns against the novel Coronavirus during the first half of 2021.
This was declared by the Minister Daniel Salas speaking to...
Although the entire world is eagerly awaiting the vaccine against the novel Coronavirus, all the studies currently underway lack fundamental information that guarantees the effectiveness of the treatment. That's what Italian virologist and veterinarian Ilaria Capua say, current director...
The President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, highlighted this past Tuesday in the framework of a speech commemorating the 199th anniversary of Independence Day, the work of health personnel, "the heroes" of today, they seek to protect the population...
The novel Coronavirus represents a real challenge for all those who work in the search for the vaccine that will achieve its eradication. COVID-19 is a new coronavirus very different from those that preceded it, which makes its spread...
